Pope Glacier
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 30 km | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 19 ′ S , 111 ° 22 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Crosson Ice Shelf | |
The Pope Glacier is a 30 km long glacier in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It flows north along the western flank of Mount Murphy to the Crosson Ice Shelf on the Walgreen Coast .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Major Donald R. Pope, engineer on the command staff of the support units of the US Navy in Antarctica from 1965 to 1967.
Web links
- Pope Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pope Glacier on geographic.org (English)